[RFC][PATCH] audit: get inode pathname patch
Serge E. Hallyn
serue at us.ibm.com
Wed Aug 6 18:26:36 UTC 2008
Quoting Mimi Zohar (zohar at linux.vnet.ibm.com):
> We are interested in using auditing's context pathname information.
> Is this the best way of accessing it?
>
> Add support for accessing auditing's inode full pathname.
Interesting idea. It does seem to do what you need.
-serge
> Signed-off-by: Mimi Zohar <zohar at us.ibm.com>
>
> Index: security-testing-2.6/include/linux/audit.h
> ===================================================================
> --- security-testing-2.6.orig/include/linux/audit.h
> +++ security-testing-2.6/include/linux/audit.h
> @@ -403,6 +403,8 @@ extern void audit_syscall_entry(int arch
> unsigned long a2, unsigned long a3);
> extern void audit_syscall_exit(int failed, long return_code);
> extern void __audit_getname(const char *name);
> +extern const char *audit_get_inode_pathname(struct task_struct *tsk,
> + struct inode *inode);
> extern void audit_putname(const char *name);
> extern void __audit_inode(const char *name, const struct dentry *dentry);
> extern void __audit_inode_child(const char *dname, const struct dentry *dentry,
> Index: security-testing-2.6/kernel/auditsc.c
> ===================================================================
> --- security-testing-2.6.orig/kernel/auditsc.c
> +++ security-testing-2.6/kernel/auditsc.c
> @@ -1677,6 +1677,28 @@ retry:
> #endif
> }
>
> +const char *audit_get_inode_pathname(struct task_struct *tsk,
> + struct inode *inode)
> +{
> + struct audit_context *context;
> + int idx;
> +
> + context = tsk->audit_context;
> + if (!context)
> + return NULL;
> + for (idx = 0; idx < context->name_count; idx++) {
> + struct audit_names *n = &context->names[idx];
> +
> + if (!n->name)
> + continue;
> +
> + if (n->ino == inode->i_ino)
> + return n->name;
> + }
> + return NULL;
> +}
> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(audit_get_inode_pathname);
> +
> /**
> * audit_getname - add a name to the list
> * @name: name to add
>
>
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